Team 0x27 wins 2012 Sparkfun AVC (Autonomous Vehicle Competition)lenge).

[Frank Neuperger]

Video links are below.

Team 0x27 from Gilbert AZ won the 2012 sparkfun AVC on June 16 in the land category. This was a first time attempt for Team 0x27.

Teh event is a totally autonomous ~ 1,000 foot run around the Sparkfun building in Boulder CO for cars as well as aircraft. For the cars, four 55 gallon drums are obstacles and there is a 54 inch gate that you have to get through for a 30 sec time bonus. Another hazard is the pond along side on the first straight. One team went in the pond twice.

The two runs by 0x27 both set course records. For the first time in the 4
year history of this competition our 2 runs both had the distinction
of being faster than the fastest UAV aircraft that were flying the same
course for the air competition. The crowd was great.

The third run was a DNF for some frustrating reasons that were purely
technical . It ended with our but hitting one of the other competitors (a human) .

The team score was for the best of 3 runs. Times were corrected by
subtracting 30 sec for going through a narrow hoop. We got the 30 sec bonus every time for corrected times of ~ 5 and ~ 2 sec.
An unofficial exhibition run against the #2 car gave a time of 27 sec
for a corrected equivalent time of negative 3 sec.

The team had started working on software and related software tools 5
weeks before the competition. The car fabrication was started 2 and a half weeks before the competition.

SIMREX, KVH Industries and Hemisphere GPS (f.k.a. Satloc) were sponsors. KVH and Hemisphere contributed an excellent Gyro and GPS respectively. SIMREX provided the 1/5 scale RC car platform.

Videos of first run:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63llcrecfSk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-nPxVs4_D4

Second run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJGq...eature=related


Team 0x27 History

Team 0x27 is made up of current members and alumni of he following teams FRC 39, FTC 4314 and FRC 842. Team 0x27 (Hex for 39 in case you have not noticed). Team 0x27 was formed in 2008 for the purpose of entering the NURC underwater robotics competition. The team came in second in the high school category in 2008 and won the NURC University division in 2009 and 2010.

The Car:

1/5 Scale Redcat buggy.
Hemisphere A100 GPS.
KVH DSP 3000 Gyro
Ardupilot processor.
Dual Core Atom Vision processor running Labview.
3000 lines of code between the car and the GUI Mapping utility for waypoint editing and telemetry.